The multidrug transporter ABCG2: still more questions than answers

Horsey, Aaron J., Cox, Megan H., Sarwat, Sunehera and Kerr, Ian D. (2016) The multidrug transporter ABCG2: still more questions than answers. Biochemical Society Transactions, 44 (3). pp. 824-830. ISSN 0300-5127

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Abstract

ABCG2 is one of at least three human ATP binding cassette (ABC) transporters which can facilitate the export from cells of a wide range of chemically unrelated drug molecules. This capacity for multidrug transport is not only a confounding factor in chemotherapy, but is also one of the more perplexing phenomena in transporter biochemistry. Since its discovery in the last decade of the 20th century much has been revealed about ABCG2's localization, physiological function and its broad substrate range. There have also been many investigations of its structure and molecular mechanism. In this mini review article we take a Rumsfeldian approach to ABCG2 and essentially ask what we do know about this transporter, and what we will need to know about this transporter if we wish to use modulation of ABCG2 activity as a therapeutic approach.

Item Type: Article
RIS ID: https://nottingham-repository.worktribe.com/output/794966
Additional Information: The final version of record is available at http://www.biochemsoctrans.org/content/44/3/824
Schools/Departments: University of Nottingham, UK > Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences > School of Life Sciences
Identification Number: https://doi.org/10.1042/BST20160014
Depositing User: Kerr, Ian
Date Deposited: 21 Jun 2016 10:16
Last Modified: 04 May 2020 17:56
URI: https://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/id/eprint/34238

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